Twenty years to the day since Oasis shot to stardom with single Supersonic, an exhibition dedicated to their early years has opened in London.

The show, Oasis: Chasing The Sun, celebrates the four years in which the Burnage band went from unsigned act to stadium superstars, and includes original instruments, tour memorabilia, Noel Gallagher’s handwritten lyric sheets and pictures from the photoshoots that got their faces on the covers of international magazines.

The Diary was given a special preview of the show and reckons the star attraction will be a recreation of the cover of their iconic breakthrough album sleeve, Definitely Maybe.

The iconic image was shot in the living room of rhythm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs by photographer Michael Spencer Jones.

Visitors to the exhibition, which is free and open for 11 days until April 22 at trendy Shoreditch gallery LONDONEWCASTLE, can walk into the life-sized recreation of the front room and pose for photographs.

And, in a room around the corner, they can see some of the original objects from the room, including the globe and flamingo, alongside the melted clock from the sleeve of Supersonic, several original awards, stage costumes and the Manchester City flag they hung in the dressing room of every venue they’ve played during their 14-year recording career.

Sleeve designer Brian Cannon was at the exhibition and told The Diary: “I knew they’d be massive right from the off. The songs were fantastic, and Liam had so much charisma.

“You take it for granted now, but it was unusual for a working-class band to want to be successful. People were bemoaning success or putting it down, but the fact was they wanted to be massive.

“People who say they hated them have another agenda: either because they’re working class or northern or successful. If you’re into rock n roll, how can you hate Oasis? But people do, vehemently and venomously - those people need to get a grip!”

Noel Gallagher’s original Union Jack Epiphone Sheraton guitar, used on the (What’s The Story) Morning Glory tour, as well as a Gibson Les Paul sunburst given to Noel by The Smiths’ Johnny Marr are also on display.

Several previously unseen images shot by Jamie Fry on Jutland Street, an iconic cobbled street close to Manchester Piccadilly station, are also included and show the band laughing and joking, in stark contrast to the attitude packed poses they adopted in celebrated shots by Jill Furminovsky, Tom Sheehan and Kevin Cummins.

The exhibition is happening in conjunction with the re-release of Definitely Maybe on May 19. Curator and photographer Lawrence Watson, who worked with the band on their Don’t Believe The Truth and with Noel’s High Flying Birds, said: “They put their mark on musical history and that has given them a right to have an exhibition to document them.”